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Originally Posted by Jeffy Pop (Post 11594389)

Picked up:

Two-Lane Blacktop
The Man Who Knew Too Much
On the Waterfront

Same list for me!

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Missed out on On The Waterfront. Managed to snag four others I was eyeing, though.

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Looking forward to "3:10 to Yuma" and "Jubal" with Glenn Ford.
Both very good westerns.

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No release announcement until Monday 3/18

:(

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Well that sucks.

The good news is that it looks like they'll finally be announcing a Wild Strawberries BD. In response to someone asking if it was going to be announced today:

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Originally Posted by Criterion on Facebook

You'll have to wait until Monday for the announcement but you might be on to something...

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Originally Posted by Sondheim (Post 11616010)

Well that sucks.

The good news is that it looks like they'll finally be announcing a Wild Strawberries BD. In response to someone asking if it was going to be announced today:

Sweet!

My favourite Bergman and quite possibly my favourite film altogether.

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Originally Posted by Sondheim (Post 11616010)

Well that sucks.

The good news is that it looks like they'll finally be announcing a Wild Strawberries BD. In response to someone asking if it was going to be announced today:

Finally...

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SHOAH

Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann’s nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, as well as other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait of the ways in which the past is always present, and it is inarguably one of the most important cinematic works of all time.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

• New high-definition digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Three additional films by director Claude Lanzmann: A Visitor from the Living (1999, 68 minutes), Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 minutes), and The Karski Report (2010, 54 minutes)
• New conversation between critic Serge Toubiana and Lanzmann
• Interview with Lanzmann about A Visitor from the Living and Sobibor
• New conversation between associate director of photography Caroline Champetier and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin
• Trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann

THINGS TO COME

A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress. Skipping through time, Things to Come bears witness to world war, dictatorship, disease, the rise of television, and finally, utopia. Conceived, written, and overseen by Wells himself as an adaptation of his own work, this megabudgeted production, the most ambitious ever from Korda’s London Films, is a triumph of imagination and technical audacity.

• New high-definition digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring film historian and writer David Kalat
• Interview with writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling on the film’s design
• Film historian Bruce Eder on Arthur Bliss’s musical score
• Audio recording from 1936 of a reading from H. G. Wells’s writing about the “wandering sickness,” the plague in Things to Come
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
• More!

MARKETA LAZAROVA

In its home country, František Vlácil’s Marketa Lazarová has been hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made; for many U.S. viewers, it will be a revelation. Based on a novel by Vladislav Vancura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and paganism, humankind and nature, love and violence. Vlácil’s approach was to re-create the textures and mentalities of a long-ago way of life, rather than to make a conventional historical drama, and the result is dazzling. With its inventive widescreen cinematography, editing, and sound design, Marketa Lazarová is an experimental action film.

• New high-definition digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• New interviews with actors Magda Vášáryová, Ivan Palúch, and Vlastimil Harapes and costume designer Theodor Pištek
• New interviews with film historian Peter Hames and journalist and critic Antonín Liehm
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by film scholar Tom Gunning and author and translator Alex Zucker and a 1969 interview with Vlácil by Liehm
• More!

SAFETY LAST

The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin was the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd—the modern guy striving for success—is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts, Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to him. Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success. Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal measure, Safety Last! is a movie experience par excellence, anchored by a genuine legend.

• New 2K digital film restoration
• Musical score by composer Carl Davis from 1989, synchronized and restored under his supervision and presented in uncompressed stereo on the Blu-ray edition
• Alternate score by organist Gaylord Carter from the late 1960s, presented in uncompressed monaural on the Blu-ray edition
• Audio commentary featuring film critic Leonard Maltin and director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll
• Introduction by Suzanne Lloyd, Lloyd’s granddaughter and president of Harold Lloyd Entertainment
• Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius, a 104-minute documentary from 1989
• Three newly restored Lloyd shorts: Take a Chance (1918), Young Mr. Jazz (1919), and His Royal Slyness (1920), with commentary by Correll and film writer John Bengtson
• Locations and Effects, a new documentary featuring Bengtson and special effects expert Craig Barron
• New interview with Davis
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Ed Park

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I was hoping for some Fassbinder announcements, glad to see Wild Strawberries getting an upgrade.

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There's nothing here that's not already available on DVD elsewhere in the English-speaking world, but Shoah, Marketa Lazarova, and Safety Last are all flat-out masterpieces, so I'd say this is a pretty great month.

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Originally Posted by Sondheim (Post 11619326)

There's nothing here that's not already available on DVD elsewhere in the English-speaking world

DVD can kiss it.

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Originally Posted by Doctorossi (Post 11619345)

DVD can kiss it.

:lol:

I might agree with that when I finally get a projector and a screen three times the size of my current (42") TV. As it is, I really value Blu-ray, but I still don't feel the need to upgrade a majority of the titles in my collection. Plus, there are still far too many really, really great movies not yet available on Blu-ray for me to adopt a "screw DVD" attitude.

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Wild Strawberries is the biggest announcement for me

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Holy crap! Great month!

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Shoah...that's gotta to be a box set, right? $140 retail??

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When the rumors of Things to Come on Criterion first surfaced, I hoped that there would be a longer cut to be salvaged from the vaults, but it appears that the 96/97 minute cut is the longest that there is, barring some later discovery. Oh well.

I first watched this fascinating movie on a local PBS station at 10pm on a Tuesday, I believe, in a horrible looking and sounding print. This was in the early 80s I think. Looking forward to the Criterion.

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I'll be picking up everything, but Shoah.

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I've never seen Things To Come, but I've read the work it's based on. Looking forward to more science fiction in the collection.

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Nothing exciting to me this month. I love Wild Strawberries, but I don't really feel the need to upgrade it.

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WILD STRAWBERRIES, SAFETY LAST and THINGS TO COME for me! :thumbsup:

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put me down for Safety Last and Wild Strawberries!

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Originally Posted by Giles (Post 11619639)

put me down for Safety Last and Wild Strawberries!

Me too, hope it's the 1st of many Harold Lloyd BDs!

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It would be a great month with just Wild Strawberries and Safety Last. Glad to see that Safety Last includes the full length documentary Harold Lloyd: Third Genius.

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That's really strange, I was just watching some old Siskel and Ebert clips on YouTube last night and watched the "Best of 1985" episode where Siskel ranked Shoah as his number 1 film of the year.

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Harold Lloyd. They will be mind.

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I want to see Shoah, but I don't know about the replayability and the price.

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Originally Posted by bluetoast (Post 11620323)

I want to see Shoah, but I don't know about the replayability and the price.

A good way to gauge:

Do you own Schindler's List? If Yes, how many times have you rewatched it in the past year? Now subtract 2.

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On facebook, Criterion posted a link to James Franco's top Criterion movies list and simultaneously quoted Spring Breakers. Awesome.

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Jeez people, I thought Shoah was the reason you upgraded to Blu-ray. How many of you have put off buying Night and Fog because it's still in SD?

I have to say, I don't envy the BD reviewers on this one. Have to temper that enthusiasm for the tech specs.

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Very excited about Shoah (if you can use that word about that film). I'm sure the restoration for a nine hour film was expensive and time consuming. $99 for 4 BD discs isn't so bad. Or get it for $50 at the next B&N sale.

Also Amazon is having a 50% off sale on six Criterion titles.

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I picked up the Network UK blu of Things to Come a few months back, but for the new Criterion extras, especially the Kalat commentary, I don't mind double-dipping.

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Originally Posted by Living Deadpan (Post 11621451)

"Criterion once again provides us with an unparalleled technical disc here. The pain in their eyes is perfectly clear thanks to the deep blacks of their pupils. While, this is a film about survivors of one of the great tragedies in human history, one of the great tragedies of Blu-ray history has been avoided. You will find no DNR here folks, just the rich, human textures of sad faces not waxy sorrow."